Russian troops are said to have launched missions to wipe out top Ukrainian officials in the east of the country.
Regional leaders are constantly on the move to avoid death squads reminiscent of the ‘Red Terror’ carried out by Bolsheviks after the First World War, the police chief in the Luhansk part of the Donbas region revealed.
As the Kremlin hailed fresh advances, including taking Lyman, a city in the neighbouring Donetsk region, chief Oleg Grigorov said: “Heads of local administration, including myself, we are constantly on the move.
